r/Prorevenge Boss Fired Me, Then BEGGED Me to Save His Company 

I love the first post, I love seeing “the boss” taking care of their employees to the point of paying hospital bills and basically in the trenches with their employees. Kudos to that guy and his family name.

The 1st story felt closer to a Malicious Compliance story than a Pro Revenge one since the insurance company messed up by saying "You don't like our policy? You can always switch to another provi-WAIT, WHAT'RE YOU DOING!? THIS GUY OWNS _HOW MANY_ BUSINESSES???"

Man. That boss from the first story is the type of boss I hope to have. Mess with my employees? Hope you enjoy scorched earth.

Company: **Refuses to pay for coworker's insurance** OP: *"YOU DARE OPPOSE ME, MORTAL?!"*

*First OP:* This story reminds me of that scene in Pretty Woman where Vivian was turned away by the snooty boutique owners. Then later in the movie, she returned and rubbed their faces that they had made a " _Big_ mistake! Big! _Huge_ !" I like reading/hearing stories like these.

If I’m gonna have a spoiled boss I’d at least like to have a Boss like OP in the first story. A boss that cares, treats right, and fights for their employees Edit: I mean spoiled in the good way (or at least what I think is the good way). He took his well off upbringing, made something of himself, and didn’t become a douchebag that treats their employees like crap

In that first story, when all those big wigs came into town I'd do the same to them. Leave them waiting for a few hours then have the janitor come out (with cleaning cart) and inform them that I'm way too busy & important to deal with such a small company as theirs.

Insurance Company: “We will not cover this.” OP: “So you have chosen death…”

How is it legal to retroactively refuse to cover a medical procedure? That sounds extremely illegal.

re story 1: Is this guy LITERAL BATMAN? HELLO? A boss of a large company with a well-known family name personally settling issues for an employee? MORE OF THIS PLEASE

That first story: I can’t imagine how many people (your average person without a lot of means) have been screwed by this company’s cruelty. They needed to go.

I have massive respect for OP in the first story. Covering her bill must have meant the world to her, but OP clearly had the means so it didn't change much for them. This is how you build employee loyalty and a good work environment. Happy employees work better and make happier customers. No wonder OP's bussinesses are successful.

Story 3: I've seen this sort of scam a few times on Reddit stories. What's worse is that sometimes, the scammer actually HAD the money the whole time! It's scummy behavior

This is a perfect “well, well, well, look how the turn tables… “ moment 😂

Hey, Slash, I really enjoyed the stories today. By the way that guy who installed that machine for 7000 pounds, that's actually the equivalent of $8400 dollars in American dollars or at $1.20 per British pound. For that company to try to stiff him out of $8400 means that they're a dishonorable bunch to deal with or that company is in bad financial shape.

That first story is something that EVERYBODY has at least thought of doing once. Beautiful

OP from the first story is a boss. Not only is he a kind individual willing to pay for his employees medical bill, when the insurance fell through but he destroyed that business who looked down on the little people. Good on OP.

Story 1: Good Boss OP weaponizes his spoiled upbringing to become a super Karen to murder an arrogant insurance company

First story : ... "we altered our terms, pray we don't change them further" comes to mind when the insurance company said they changed their thing a month prior, without warning and that it was a 12 month retrospect (how is this legal!?). Goes to show how much of a scam insurance is.

Story 1: Don't you love when you shoot down an attitude like that? I love the irony at the end.

Story one that is the kind of person who understands that just because they have wealth and alot of fortune both inherited and earned, (from my understanding) doesnt make you entitled to be a dick. The fact that he went to bat for that employee and when it didnt pan out he went and settled the bill for her, That is a boss who understands the human value and if i ever am a boss it's how i hope to be

Don't mess with an Engineer.... After listening to this one I had to laugh. I did field service for a long time in the automation controls field. A competitor of the company I worked for had a machine that used our controls, not their own. Their machine went down and no matter what they did they couldn't get it to run. They didn't want to call us, a competitor, and tried working with the machine's builder in another city. They reloaded the program, changed out all of the controls hardware and still could not get the machine to run. So they bit the bullet and called us. I got the call and went to the site. When I got there the receptionist said "Oh they are waiting for you." and I signed in and was lead back to the machine. The building was silent as this machine produced what was needed for everything else and everyone else to work. The head of the company was standing there in his suit and started to bitch me out for them being down for two weeks. I replied you just called us and those two weeks are not our fault. I said I need an electrician and an operator. I had my computer on my shoulder and my jacket was still zipped up. I was lead back to the machine where I asked what was going on. They said the machine just won't run. So I asked the operator to try and make anything run on the machine. She started by pressing a button and told me a pump should have started. The electrician already had a computer hooked up to the machine, and a set of electrical prints. I asked him to show me the pump in the schematics, he did. From there I got an address to look up in the program, then asked the operator to press the button. Looking at the program everything needed was met accept one item. I searched back two steps to an input that was not on. I grabbed the prints, paged back to the input and saw what it was. Seven different things were wired to it and all seven needed to be made. So I asked for the first one, it was good, and so on. When I got to the last one, a switch, I found it and looked back at the contacts, they were open. The switch was the "Off - Run" selector switch. It was in the "Off" position .... for the last two weeks. I switched into "Run" and told the operator to try starting the machine. She pressed the Start button and the machine came to life churning out parts. The plant went silent as I was at the machine for about a minute. The VP motioned for the electrician to come over to him. I was standing at the machine, coat still on, and my computer still hanging off my shoulder, when the electrician came back and said the VP was embarrassed and asked for me to go. As I was walking back out I had to pass him and all the big wigs. He then asked me what I did. I replied "I just turned the machine on". I was back at the receptionist signing out 5 minutes after walking in the building. The customer got a 4 hour minimum bill. That one always makes me laugh.

Yep, last story and a lesson to all: Do not be an asshole and not pay those who work for you.

OP does a play by play of what a good boss should do for their employees.

First story: “Remember when you wouldn’t pay for the procedure my insurance actually covered?” “Big mistake, huge…”

That first story made me angry. Legally, an insurance company cannot approve a procedure and then change the rules and deny it after it has happened. That is fraud and they could have been sued into oblivion. Can't believe she had to pay for the surgery herself. That is completely illegal.

i remember there was a kind of a similar enough story that made the news in my country... there was a bussinessman that was abducted for something like 20-40 days and the news made his name popular. And there was a second pretty huge CEO with a very similar family name (like a single extra letter, that is fully pronounced though, so the two names cna be easily ddifferentiated) so two of the CEOs truck drivers get into an accident in some internal shop transfer of something and their insurance denies them coverage because they are insured only for client deliveries or some bulshit of that sort, and whilst the vehicle damages where probably something like 10k, the medical bill of one of the guy to not lose his arm went into half a million (he either had to be transported to another country for surgery or a team had to be rbought in or sth costly that i do not remember). anyways the insurance does not accept to pay and the big very popular company's (in the country) name isnt the one that is visible, it is some generic transport and logistics name that is like a subsidiary and nobody knows. apparently the CEO tries to get it solved through legal, financial or whatever else and he fails. he then goes in person and they tell him "oh, because you are famous you think you can come here and buly us into making half a million in payments? go f* yourself" and kick him out. that was the point he got a news crew involved to wire him with a hidden camera for his next visit. (htere were some middle points that i do not remember) he goes in wired and tells them "do you know who i am?" and they say they do, because his family name is well known... etc.. and they again tell him that they are kicking him out. he call in his laywer who apparrently has prepared a big lawsuit for breach of contract, because apparently they didn't have a good enough reason to deny the payment. And then the lawyer starts pulling out lawsuit after lawsuit from all the other companies that operate under the same mama-company of no-trust in the services due to proven ineffectiveness they start going crazy. Next day the insurance company EU CEO is sent to the country because they suddenly realise that its not the "famous" bussinessman who probably has like 30 or 50 emplyees, but its the other one. The guy that has the biggest toy megastores in the country, that has expanded that to like another 10 countries and te corporate offices are in this country, with so so many delivery and logistic companies and port and rail and so many other connected companies... Only the toy chain emplayes like 2500 people, but all together he has approximately 36000 people insured, and over 1000 vehicles, and over 200 propertie insured with them. apparently the hit from just loosing them as a client was forcing the isnureance branch in our conuntry to close down, but the lawsuit which was asking for all the active contracts to be refunded, and some fines and so many other things, made a top 15 european insurance (or at least i think they were this big) to pull out of 20% of europe to cut its losses. and then the CEO went on some media tour to bash them even more...

I wish there was more “revengy-ness” to the seniors apartment story. Yeah, that OP basically cost that company an account, but I wish there was more to it.

First story: That is definitely a "Well well well. How the turntables." Moment

Wow, that first guy sounds like an amazing boss! And an actual decent human being

I love that first OP. They sound like a fantastic boss who really wants the best for their employees. I always feel so lucky to have coworkers and managers like this too.

Holy crap, I appreciate the amount of paraphrasing you did for the first story! Fantastic video as always

It was pure joy when op in story1 started listing all the businesses he had insured with that company 🤗🤣

First story shows you how low some insurance companies are. They only cared about the OP’s employees until they heard the OP’s last name. The ending to the story was perfect.

"I will pay you after you're done!"... "We've had this conversation before, buddy."

The first story reminded me of something I learned about Jim Henson, from back when he was shooting the first Muppet Show. His friend and one of the founding members of the muppet’s Jerry Nelson was having a problem with their insurance provider. Jerry’s daughter Christine had cystic fibrosis, and after years of treatments, he’d been informed by their provider that they would no longer cover her. Jim wouldn’t stand for that and changed providers for his entire company. When Jerry tried to thank him, Jim just kind of shrugged and said “That’s what insurance companies are for”. He also granted a wish for Christine, who had wanted to be an actress. You can see her in a scene with her dad in The Great Muppet Caper, where the two are walking in the park together.

That first story is *exactly* why I never buy into the "people love their insurance and they love their freedom!" argument against M4A. Literally NO ONE loves their insurance. No one, no matter how many politicians and insurance companies will tell you that you do. You don't love your insurance. What you'd love is to have medical needs like that employee actually covered, without having the rug pulled out from under you months later when the company decides they don't feel like covering the costs for the insurance that you already pay way too much for. If anyone tries to tell you that people love their insurance and love having the "freedom" to choose which insurance plan will HOPEFULLY screw them over the least... don't. It's a scam and cases like that story show you why - you don't love your insurance and your insurance doesn't give a toss about you. So glad that OP mercilessly tore them down, the world is better off with one less greedy company ruining people's lives. We'd be better off if all medical insurance companies went the way of the dodo and we just adapted to a universal healthcare system.

Any lawyer would have an absolute field day with the Devil’s own insurance company.

Insurance company: *Doesn't pay OP: "So you have chosen... death."

This is where the phrase “Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions” with that 1st reddit post. Karma is a bitch, ain’t it?

the first story doesn't make any sense. If they only informed their large clients, wouldn't OP have been informed, seeing how his family's business empire is so big that them leaving put the insurance company at risk of closing?

I wanna call bs on the first story, because there’s no way an *insurance company* would explicitly ADMIT TO DISCRIMINATION, let alone THAT EASILY. Edit: not to mention *contract fraud.* I know that it is for a FACT illegal to change the terms of service and enforce new rules retroactively, ESPECIALLY like this.

Second story: I can tell even one self can install a TV system. I did the one at my home by myself. All you need is an aerial, as much coaxial cable you think you'll need, a knife, some heads for the cable and you just put everything together, if your TV is digital you don't need a digital box, which isn't hard to install either.

Employee: could you please pay my insurrace? Insurrance: no Boss: so you have chosen death, and also hippity hoppity, your building is now my propierty.

Why was this whole video like the most wholesome satisfying r/prorevenge I've seen yet

Insurance Company: You're just a tiny client, we don't have time for y-...Is it just me, or is that Final Boss Music?

Note to self: never anger an army man

And this is the story of how OP got a super loyal employee, who is highly unlikely to leave... I laughed at the last story. That is brilliant revenge. Beautiful!

That first story should be a reminder to everyone just how priveleged and powerful the 1% are. How easy their lives are and how easily they can crush even major corporations, but they only do so to benefit themselves and their close acquaintances.

I get soooo much satisfaction hearing stories like the first one.. I wish more business owners were like him with their employees..

Dear Dabney, in the last story it was pounds not dollars. The symbol that looks a bit like a cursive capital L is pound sign.

Well the lady whose boss covered her out of pocket is gonna be sticking with the company! Now that's how you get loyalty!

Watching this at work Is what makes the morning shift possible

Got travel insurance with ok rates (this was a condition of my visa in the US). Got sick, submitted a claim. The bill comes back 4 times higher. After 8 (!!!) months of back and forth with disgustingly rude customer service, after involving the Attorney General in my state, I finally got an answer of why: they had an addenda to their contract, which was AN ENTIRE CONTRACT BUT WITH DIFFERENT NUMBERS. Of course, they failed to mention the addenda when we were discussing the rates. How on Earth is this legal? In the end, I had to pay only two times the amount, not four, "as a courtesy". I lived in Russia for 20 years. The US insurance company called IMG Global is officially, by a huge margine, the worse organization I've ever had a displeasure of dealing with. That includes the my home State's Duma. I made the fucking Duma to see the light once, but I failed to do so with IMG Global. Absolute disgrace.

Re:Getting revenge on the cable company I don't think there is a able company anywhere on Earth that people absolutely love! Good on OP for getting revenge on the cable company!

Insurance company: well if you don't like it, you can go somewhere else. Customer: Okay bye Insurance company: wait, not like that!

I love the original poster from the first story, you can tell that they weren't spoiled by their ivory tower upbringing, and actually use that sort of thing to do a lot of good! Gotta love it when you see arrogant and self righteous people get their just desserts.

Now that first OP is the type of Boss I'd want to work for. I have nothing but respect for him

I wish I could somehow meet the 1rst story's poster and tell him he is an icon, I love him, if he was my boss I would die for him- just for seeing him help my coworker with cancer like that. I have never heard of a manager that supportive. Imagine how joyful he made his employer? What an absolute king. I love him and I don't even know him.

I have to admit, that first one sounds like a r/thathappened more than a r/prorevenge

Please bring back the r/puppybloopers

Oh man, that first story was absolutely beautiful! That insurance company deserved all of that karma

The first story sounds like it should belong on r/that happened...

That first story is absolutely fantastic ! To buy your former insurance provider’s building after their company has gone bust must be a ‘smack in the mouth’ to their former employees ! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Don't be surprised if other insurances companies, small or big, had done that BS. You want to meet evil?, go to a insurance company. Props to OP for being such a great employer, it's sure a fresh air

Retirement Community Story - I applaud OP for being proactive and taking care of the retirees. Kudos!

That last story could've only been better if Jake threatened to sue OP. You know, because he wouldn't be able to make a case without incriminating himself! 😂

It's so damn frustrating hearing about how insurance fraud is a reasonably punishable crime, but insurance companies can get away with nonchalantly denying coverage that they don't have a good enough reason to do and are somehow within their full rights to use or change vague clauses in their contracts as legal loopholes. And then they have the nerve to talk down on their customers as insignificant. Just imagine how many people some insurance companies have screwed over who didn't and still don't have the legal or influential power to punish them even a fraction as much as OP did.

That machine story. So Jake reached out to OP and said he coudnt afford the company's install service(let's say $150, up from the 100 Company used to charge), but then agrees to give OP double what the company used to charge(200)? Yea, seems sus. I would've been wary of that.

That first story was fresh change on all the horrible bosses.

that first story is the exact opposite of half of the Malicious Compliance stories MC stories: HAHA I, THE BOSS, WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU! The First Story: Oh, sure. *Goes to company *they do nothing *RUNS THEM OUT OF BUSINESS

That first story ain't pro revenge. It's full on nuclear scorched earth revenge with radioactive fallout dessert. Company: "We don't deal with small clients." OP: "So you have chosen Armageddon."

Story 1: Awesome!! I wish more employers stood up for their employees like that!!

I think the wealthy business owner doesn’t give himself enough credit for being who he is. He could have struggled more, yeah, but struggles don’t always make a person better. He did well for himself through some connections, but you still don’t become as successful as he did without some sort of work ethic and integrity. Then the way he cared for his employee?? That’s amazing. Good people are good people.

for the last story, OP shoulda gotten out a toolkit, set up for like half an hour, building up the tension, and the fix the problem, then pack up

Last story. Serves him right to have to hunt down each of those guys. If he had payed them like he was supposed to, he never would have been in that situation. Good for them!

It is rare when an employer truly goes to bat for their employees using their power and influence to benefit those who have been cheated out of a benefit they were fully entitled to receive.

Honestly, even if OP dealing with that insurance company was a small business with no other connections he could still have ruined their day. If he got what was said here in writing I imagine an e-mail or two is all that would be required to convince the "big customers" not to work with an insurance company that can and will choose to retroactively change their contract to just not pay out a claim whenever is convenient for them without even informing their customers... I imagine in pretty much any country, taking this issue to court would get you this statement in writing allowing you to send those e-mails and a payout (at minimum cost of the treatment).

I love when a business person uses plain good business practices to but arrogant companies. Bravo dude

The fact that he WAS a big client and he wasn't told shows that their whole deal was bullshit.

I'm pretty sure all these stories should be in r/thathappened

This is why my philosophy is, "Don't be a butt."

Last: Search for an OP who is only one of SEVEN people in UK who can do one type of restoration job on old buildings. The GM of the larger project pisses him off and OP leaves and warns the other 6. Obviously they are too busy! A huge fine is levied when GM can't "deliver" the goods on time!

you know, i was expecting the OP to be completely different than he actually was. I like them. they are nice.

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That first story is beautiful. I was worried he was just gonna switch insurances and we wouldn't see what the company thought of that. So glad they went to do it in person.

First Story: Someone already mentioned this, but "the butt you kick today might be the one who will kick your butt in the future."

Someone has an operation covered by insurance. Insurance company changes the policy terms after the operation was done then backdates the changes so the operation is no longer covered. That doesn't really sound legal.

retroactively denying someone insurance for a medical procedure is so incredibly unfathomably scummy Also remember, if you make yourself a problem for a professional problem solver, you will be solved one way or another

£7000 for pressing one button? No. £1 for pressing that button. £6999 for knowing which button to press.

3rd story: When he called back to "apologize" I'd have told him it's now 8k instead of 7k for having screamed at me like that.

Re: Liens - Liens don't just prevent the property from being sold. They prevent the owner from taking out loans using it as collateral, refinancing mortgages, etc...

1st Story: This may be the first time I've ever rooted for the silver-spoon capitalist in one of these stories

Jake: WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN, WHY HAVEN'T YOU BEEN ANSWERING MY CALLS? Me: Why would I answer the calls of a Crook that Stiffed me? What in HELL makes you think I'd be even remotely willing to work for you after what you did to me? Me: However, I WILL be willing to finish installing the unit on the following, NON-NEGOTIABLE conditions: 1) You will sign a Contract before I resume work, that Contract will lay out this and all other terms of work and of course will be Legally Binding. 2) Once you sign the Contract and take your copy, you WILL pay me UP FRONT AND IN FULL with Cash, Bank Draft (Cashiers Check) or Money Order before I resume work, Credit/Debit Cards and Non-Certified Checks are not acceptable. Agree to those terms and I'll be happy to finish the installation.

7000 POUNDS!

Insurance company : We don't deal with the likes of you! OP : I have a card, a special, beautifull card. The UNO reverse card. BEHOLD THY POWER YA PEASANTS!

Try to screw over ONE client and don't be suprised when MULTIPLE clients cancel your service.

That first story is the *correct* way to play “do you know who I am?” Don’t tell. Show.

Most cable companies have monopolies in their area. Even in major cities they have made maps and assign territories and if you don't like your one provider you are screwed. They have perfectly skirted the laws put in place to prevent this.

When he explained what lean ment in this context I can only imagine cups of lean and a purple salesperson in a night guard uniform